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Chapter 10: Hallowe'en

Simplified Chinese (Mandarin: China)
万圣节前夜
Wànshèng-jié qiányè
万圣节 wànshèng-jié = 'ten-thousand saints festival' = 'all-saints day'.
前夜 qiányè = 'previous night'.
Halloween
Traditional Chinese (Mandarin: Taiwan)
萬聖節驚魂
Wànshèng-jié jīnghún
萬聖節 wànshèng-jié = 'ten-thousand saints festival'.
驚魂 jīnghún = 'shock-the-soul' = 'fear, shock, horror'.
Halloween Horror
Japanese
ハロウィーン
Harowiin
ハロウィーン Harowiin = 'Halloween'. Halloween
Korean
핼러윈
Hallowin
핼러윈 Hallowin = 'Halloween'. Halloween
Vietnamese (Chinese characters show etymology)
Lễ hội ma Haloween lễ hội (禮會?) = 'festival'.
ma () = 'ghost'.
Haloween (pronunciation: Ha-lô-guyn).
Halloween Ghost Festival
Mongolian (previous)
Халлоуны баяр
Khallounii bayar
Халлоун khalloun = 'Halloween'. ( -ii Genitive form Халлоуны khallounii 'of Halloween'.)
баяр bayar = 'festival'.
Halloween Festival
Mongolian (new)
Хэллоуин
Khellouin
Хэллоуин khellouin = 'Halloween'.
Halloween

Halloween, which falls on 31 October, is the evening before All Hallows' Day, a time devoted to remembering the dead. For more on the background of Western Halloween, see here. The modern American-style Halloween is becoming a world-wide phenomenon, even in countries which are not traditionally Christian.

How is 'Halloween' translated?

(Korean appears thanks to "Hiro".)

(Detailed notes on the chapter can be found at Harry Potter Lexicon)

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